...Mei Fong Rules governing the size of Chinese families remain in place—and even with a recent loosening of the policy, it may be too late to avert demographic decline. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Mei Fong China one-child...

... The Regents of the University of California fertility Richard Cincotta Africa women's rights AIDS demographics South Africa Botswana Zimbabwe Kenya 184 Fertility decline and a maturing age structure typically prove more indicative of future human development . . . than do shifts toward...

... demographics China aging Japan United States population France developed world Germany developing world 20 The risk of social and political upheaval could grow throughout the develop- ing world even as the developed world s capacity to deal with such threats declines. Global Aging...

...Sergio DellaPergola If one wants a country to be Jewish … a certain threshold of the population may actually need to be Jewish. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Sergio DellaPergola Israel demographics Arabs Jews democracy...

... Nicholas Eberstadt Russia demographics mortality Soviet Union heart disease alcohol tobacco fertility AIDS 288 How could a literate European country with a traditionally strong technical and scientific base gradually but inexorably retrogress toward a Third World mortal- ity profile...

... direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions . 2010 Current History demographics Wang Feng China one-child policy aging...

... welfare state China United States social model Lisbon Strategy eligibility requirements demographics open method coordination 99 The form of the welfare state may change, but . . . European nation-states will continue to view public responsibility for citizen welfare as an important role...